3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies
25651 – HMS Spence
Voyage ID: 25651
Was this a corporate crossing: No
Vessel
Name: HMS Spence
Flags: gb
Tonnage: /
Journey
Departure Year: /
Departure Location: London
Arrival Year: 1738
Arrival Location: Unknown
Enslaved people
Principal purchase location: Anomabu
Principal landing location: Barbados, port unspecified
Number embarked: 100
Number disembarked: 86
Number of deaths: /
Outcome
Sold slaves in Americas - subsequent fate unknown
Sources
Donnan,II,463<><p>Donnan, Elizabeth, ed., <em>Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to the Americas, vol. III</em> (Washington, DC, 1930)</p>. Fryer, Staying Power, p. 52 shows HMS Diamond, Greenwich and Spence lying off the African coast for the protection of British merchant vessels and themselves engaging in trading for captive Africans, with voyages reported for HMS Greenwich (200 captive Africans) and HMS Spence (250-260), both the subject of complaints from Bristol slave-traders of unfair competition.